Ishani Ganguli MD, MPH is a physician and health services researcher at Brigham and Women’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Harvard Medical School. She studies how patients and physicians make medical decisions. Prior to this work, Ganguli led patient engagement initiatives at Massachusetts General Hospital around video-based patient education and patient-reported outcome measures. In addition, she practices internal medicine/primary care and writes about health care for The Boston Globe, Reuters, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other publications. She is an associate faculty member at Ariadne Labs, a contributing editor at the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and a reviewer for Health News Review.

Nathan Spell, MD, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and trained in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He spent four years as an internist in the US Air Force Medical Corps before coming to Emory University in 1998, where he is associate professor of medicine. From 2006 to 2016 he served as Chief Quality Officer of Emory University Hospital, leading a variety of quality improvement activities, including oversight and support of projects, internal consultation, development and delivery of training programs, and intentional efforts to enhance the culture of safety and service. In 2014 he also became the Vice Chair for Quality and Clinical Effectiveness in the Department of Medicine. In 2016 Dr. Spell was appointed as Associate Dean for Education and Professional Development at the Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr. Spell is an educator on the subjects of healthcare system structure, performance and quality improvement. Target audiences include medical and nursing students, graduate medical education, physicians and staff at Emory, continuing medical education and community outreach. He directs quality improvement courses that combined have reached over 2,000 participants.

I am a hospitalist at Durham VA Medical Center, where I lead and participate in quality improvement projects across both the inpatient and outpatient settings. My current projects include work on readmissions, hospital-acquired infections, clinical documentation improvement, and optimization of chronic kidney disease management and nephrology referral patterns. I also serve as the lead mentor for our Chief Resident in Quality and Safety and as a small-group leader for a longitudinal medical student course on case-based clinical management.

Srinath Adusumalli is a fellow in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Fellow in Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and subsequently completed his internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During his internal medicine training, he co-led the residency program’s quality and safety educational and operational efforts. He has continued similar work during his fellowship training and is currently spearheading fellowship program efforts to design and implement a quality and safety curriculum. His additional scholarly interests include rigorously examining the role of emerging technologies in improving the quality, value, and delivery of cardiovascular medicine.